Word: soundtrack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop. He knows how to pace the film, a quality many young Hollywood directors do not have. Amid the bustle of this crazy world, Anderson often pauses to show us the calmer, sweeter moments, the smaller tragedies, and the overall vapidity of the era. Throughout "Boogie Nights," the soundtrack lowers, the camera sits still, and we get a clearer perspective of what's going...
...nine weeks of Navy basic training begin on a luxury bus that takes recruits from O'Hare airport to the Navy's lone boot camp, Great Lakes Recruit Training Command, just north of Chicago. Onboard they watch an 18-min. orientation video with a rock-music soundtrack in which recent boot-camp grads tell the new arrivals that "physically, anybody can get through boot camp," and that it's O.K. to cry. Recruits get a "Blue Card," which helps them deal with stress. The card instructs a recruit to hand it over to a Navy trainer...
...Cosmo, Vogue and Elle, while of dubious literary value and filled with appalling advertisements, provide hours of amusement ("Is he right for you? The fast, fun guide to men.") I now feel slumber parties just rock, especially when they involve gossip, hair-braiding and listening to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack...
Like beer at a fraternity and pizza at a child's birthday, their theory goes, the album has become popular because it's cheap, simple and a safe bet not to offend partygoers. And then it hits me: it's the Pulp Fiction soundtrack of its time...
...getting into. (Actually, I thought it was a Spanish dance show.) But it turned out to be a musical in the vein of "Rent," interspersed with monologues. I say in the vein of "Rent," because it dealt with similar issues of sexuality, identity and technology on a pop-music soundtrack. But "Cantata 2000" was better than "Rent." By a long shot...